Because of all the interest in this thread, I've place all of the video content of Patrick Mahomes II's college career, and draft day goodness into a single post that can be found here. Enjoy! [Reply]
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Reid and the Kansas City Chiefs hosted Mahomes for a pre-draft workout during the spring of 2017. Like other teams, they created a mock install day to teach him a portion of their offense. Mahomes sat quietly, listening and writing furiously with a pencil, as Reid taught him a selection of plays, formations, protections and calls. When it was over, they sent him out of the room for a break and to test his retention.
When he returned, Reid flipped the scenario. Now it was time for Mahomes to "install" the offense to him. Mahomes walked to the front of the room, stood at the white board and -- in the unique Texas-twang voice that Reid has appropriately called "froggish" -- spit out the Chiefs' offense nearly verbatim from the morning session.
"The recall that he has is crazy," offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy said later. "You can go through maybe 12-15 plays during a seven-on-seven period. Then later, you sit back and ask him exactly what happened on, say, Play 3. He can recall exactly what happened, who he threw it to. He can tell you exactly what coverage they were playing, right off the top of his head. That's one of the most impressive things about him. That tells you he sees everything and absorbs it, what a lot of guys don't."
My concern is that he'll make so much money raping faces at quarterback that he'll have no interest in coming back as the OC and eventual HC. I need Patrick Mahomes to be a part of my football life until I am dead. [Reply]
It's incredibly impressive and a lot of these minds exist in the NFL apparently. I heard a great sound bite about Sean McVay the other day. He can recall every single TD that the Rams scored last season, the play they called, the defensive formation and the players involved in the play.
The radio host would ask him to recall a specific scoring play in the game and McVay would just spit it out, no hesitation. To my understand Nagy is another one of these great minds.
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My concern is that he'll make so much money raping faces at quarterback that he'll have no interest in coming back as the OC and eventual HC. I need Patrick Mahomes to be a part of my football life until I am dead.
This. I think he’s gonna be good at that if he chooses to one day.
If he becomes the legend that he very well could, hard to imagine KC won’t keep him around in some capacity. [Reply]
